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Toshiba : BlackRock owns 5 percent of Toshiba, likely becoming top shareholder

January 19, 2017 at 06:50 am EST

TOKYO (Reuters) - BlackRock Inc (>> BlackRock, Inc.) has a stake in Toshiba Corp (>> Toshiba Corp) of 5.01 percent, according to a Japanese government filing, likely becoming the struggling firm's top shareholder.

According the filing, BlackRock had bought the stake for investment purposes.

JP Morgan Chase owned 4.14 percent of Toshiba shares as of Sept. 30, its biggest shareholder at the time, according to an earlier Toshiba filing.

Toshiba's financial crisis deepened on Thursday as media reported it may unveil a bigger-than-expected $6 billion writedown for its U.S. nuclear business, sending its shares sliding.

(Reporting by Junko Fujita; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)

Stocks treated in this article : BlackRock, Inc., Toshiba Corp

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Toshiba Corp is a Japan-based company mainly engaged in energy system solutions business and other businesses. The Company operates in six business segments. The Energy System Solutions segment provides thermal power generation systems, nuclear power generation systems and hydroelectric power generation systems. The Infrastructure System Solutions segment provides water and sewage systems, broadcasting systems, radio equipment, environmental systems, road systems, transportation equipment, and battery systems. The Retail & Printing Solutions segment provides point-of-sale (POS) systems, multifunction devices. The Storage & Device Solutions segment provides power devices, small signal devices, optical semiconductors, mixed signal integrated circuits (ICs), hard disk drives (HDDs), semiconductor manufacturing equipment. The Industrial ICT Solutions segment provides information technology (IT) solution services. The Others segment provides logistics services.

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